April 11, 2022 Driver crashes, runs; half-dozen passengers in front, back and trunk fly out of Mercedes A half-dozen young people were taken to hospitals after a wild, scary ride ended with a horrific crash. Now, the driver who apparently walked away from his friends and the mess is facing more than a dozen criminal charges.
April 6, 2022 SUV driver who crashed into 4 students at bus stop, killing 2, was impaired The toxicology report is in, and the driver involved in the deadly crash that killed two students waiting for their bus to take them to school has been arrested.
April 5, 2022 Amazing rescue caught on dash-cam: Deputies save man trapped in burning car Two sheriff’s deputies made an amazing rescue and it all happened to be caught on their car’s dash-cam.
April 4, 2022 New York City using billboards to take shot at Florida, DeSantis over school controversy With a set of five billboards, New York City is taking on Florida and the subject matter is the controversial school law Gov. Ron DeSantis signed last week.
March 21, 2022 Male prostitutes and porn on duty: Ex-girlfriend’s tell-all leads to PBSO deputy’s firing An extremely bad breakup led to a Palm Beach County sheriff’s deputy getting into deep trouble. His ex-girlfriend gave a laundry list of allegations to the sheriff’s office, which found he violated policy after policy.
February 1, 2022 Former Dolphins coach Brian Flores suing NFL, every franchise The former coach of the Miami Dolphins is suing the National Football League and each of its franchises for racial discrimination.
January 17, 2022 Reports: DeSantis and Trump butting heads over 2024, mostly in private Things may not be so lovey-dovey between two of the most popular Republicans in the country, according to multiple published reports.
January 12, 2022 Trump calls politicians who hide booster status ‘gutless’ in interview Former President Donald Trump had a harsh word for politicians who won’t say whether they got their COVID-19 vaccine booster shots: “gutless.”
December 5, 2020 Dan Rather: Raising a ruckus in a good way from Texas to TV, and now the Twitterverse You may not have heard much about Dan Rather lately. I don’t remember seeing him on TV except as a guest on NBC News,…
November 5, 2020 Hey Trump! Call it quits or history will judge you even more harshly Two days have passed since the election for President of the United States, about a third of the 100 Senators and all 435 members…
October 23, 2020 When to talk and when to not The idea for this blog post came today when I noticed an article called “Where cancel culture stops,” by Yisroel Besser in Mishpacha magazine, meant for Orthodox Jews. (I apologize…
May 1, 2020 Is Facebook facing the fact its Community Standards struck out with me 3 times in one night? If you’re a longtime reader, then you’ve probably seen the phase I went through, ending articles with this phrase: If you appreciate what you…
February 9, 2020 Your local reporter may be phoning it in Have you seen Katie from Kansas on your local CBS TV station’s website? You probably shouldn’t. This post started when I was looking for…
December 23, 2019 The bad and the good at work (media edition) We all have good days and bad days, but both of these quotes refer to the bigger picture at different times in different people’s…
October 18, 2019 Haven’t been in touch for a while. This is partly the reason. To those of you eager to read more blog posts here (this is blog #150!), and news on ThePhillyFiles.com, I’m temporarily sorry. No, I…
August 15, 2019 ThePhillyFiles’ six-week milestone! I sent the following to subscribers of ThePhillyFiles on Mailchimp: It’s hard for me to believe but today marks *six weeks* since the kickoff…
July 8, 2019 Video: First fiery justice, then the law A man the BBC calls a “far-right extremist” — who set fire to a synagogue, a year ago — first went down in flames…
June 13, 2019 Adding my own few points to Nexstar’s ‘Digital First’ strategy The phrase “Digital First” is nothing new. Managers in TV station news departments have been saying it for years, but they really hadn’t practiced…
May 3, 2019 Lenny’s update, and the writing and posting you may have missed You may have actually looked at the homepage of this blog, CohenConnect.com, and thought I hadn’t been writing. It may have looked that way,…
March 16, 2019 Control of the media after the mosque attacks in New Zealand THANK YOU to the two new followers from over the past week, bringing the total up to 116. I hope you like what you…
February 21, 2019 Pre-election politics in Israel, and where I’ve been Tomorrow will be a month since my last actual blog post. I’ve been very busy working and also spent a little time in Florida…
January 7, 2019 Odds, ends and new beginnings It’s always good to be remembered, and hopefully being your last new year’s message of the year will keep some of my thoughts on…
January 2, 2019 Banned from Facebook pages twice in 2 days! Sometimes, interesting things happen when you read friends’ Facebook pages. I’m not talking about going to look on purpose, which I’ve done before. I’m…
December 12, 2018 Exposing hate, close to home (as if acceptable anywhere) My interest started when I was looking at my Facebook feed over the weekend and saw this post from a former coworker. Obviously, we’re…
December 6, 2018 Blogging better in 2019 after hitting 20,000 views in 2018 THANK YOU! I don’t know what else to say. There’s nothing special about hitting 20,000 blog page views except that it’s a big round…
November 21, 2018 The end of an era, and beginning of this one (Part A of this one) It was 20 years ago tonight. Not exactly. It was actually four days off, on Nov. 25, but what really matters is it was…
